Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever - My Story by Justin Bieber

Author:Justin Bieber
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780007426928
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published: 2011-03-18T04:36:41+00:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR

We spent Christmas 2007 at Grandpa and Grandma’s like always. New Year’s Eve, we sat there wondering what 2008 would bring.

“I think you should do ‘With You,’” Scooter told me. “That thing is on fire right now, and I know you can murder it.”

I thought that was a great idea. I loved that song, so it didn’t take me long to learn it, and I couldn’t wait for Mom to video it. Unfortunately, I’d just gotten the ugliest haircut of my life the day before. My trademark swoosh was hacked off into this squarish situation that kind of reminded me of Bart Simpson. Which was appropriate, because Mom shot the video in my room at Grandpa and Grandma’s with the poster of Bart Simpson on the wall behind me. Except the shot is framed so you’re just looking at Bart Simpson’s crotch. And some little hockey guys. A few minutes into it, I get up and you can see a Tupac poster too, and I guess that sums up my personality – Bart Simpson and Tupac. Ha ha. I don’t mind saying, Scooter was right – I really did murder that thing. That was all I cared about. I thought I’d nailed the song and couldn’t wait for him to see it.

He was at the Grammys when Mom sent it to him, and he loved the song. But the look – well, not so much. He sent Mom a text message: “This is really good, but let’s shoot again when his hair grows back.”

“In less than a month, that great song with the bad hair hit a million”

But the text got cut off. All Mom got was “This is really good,” so she loaded it up onto YouTube. By the time Scooter called to tell her to take it down, it had gotten more than 25,000 hits.

“Wow!” he said. “Well, let’s see what happens.”

In less than a month, that great song with the bad hair hit a million.

Now they all hit a million almost immediately, and I can’t tell you how grateful I am, but that first one – that was incredibly thrilling.

Mom and Scooter were putting in long nights and hardworking days. Scooter and Carin were going out by then, so poor Carin was sucked into the vortex too. Scooter was flying us down now and then to meet with one person or another, but nobody had the slightest interest in me. We were all getting frustrated. We’d put so much work into this and the YouTube hits were going through the roof, but no one in the “real-world” music industry cared about that. We kept hearing over and over, “You can’t launch a kid without a TV show. If he’s not on Nickelodeon or Disney, forget it.”

Scooter kept trying to tell people, “This kid already has a huge fanbase. They’re out there. If we give them the records, they’ll do the rest.” But that had never been done in the music business. Everyone understood the concept of a viral video, but no one had ever used that to successfully launch a major act.

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